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Popular musician dies: Everyone knows the number 1 hit - hit star Jürgen Drews reacts "startled"

2020-05-18T04:44:03.922Z


The biggest hit of his band is still in everyone's ear: a popular musician has died. Jürgen Drews is startled.


The biggest hit of his band is still in everyone's ear: a popular musician has died. Jürgen Drews is startled.

  • Victor Scott is dead.
  • Together with Jürgen Drews he was active at  Les Humphries Singers . Schlager star Drews was shocked to hear the news.
  • Many still have their biggest hit "Mama Loo" in their ears.

Hamburg - Great mourning for Victor Scott : The popular musician apparently died a few days ago. The sad news of Victor Scott's death is said to have first been published by Kojo Rigault , who he claims to be his niece. Accordingly, he died on May 10th.

The official fan club of Les Humphries Singers also spread the information on Facebook . Both are not highly official confirmations - but there is also no concrete reason to doubt the correctness.

Victor Scott (Les Humphries Singers) is dead: fans react

Victor Scott was active at Les Humphries Singers , a successful band around the English Les Humphries, and was one of the founding members. In addition to him, part of the colorful pop band, which was particularly successful in the 1970s, was a man who is known to every German pop fan: Jürgen Drews * .

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Jürgen Drews with a record by Les Humphries Singers. The photo was taken for the documentary "Rise and Fall of a Pop Legend", which was broadcast on Phoenix in 2008.

© PHOENIX / NDR / Andreas Fischer

The most famous songs by Les Humphries Singers include  “Mama Loo” and “Mexico”, the first song climbed to number 1 on the single charts in Germany, every music fan should know it. Their records can still be found in many cupboards today, and their fluffy sound has survived for decades.

Victor Scott with his characteristic hat was one of the figureheads of the Les Humphries Singers, zeit.de once called him the "darling from Trinidad " in an article - Scott came from there.

The fans are also affected. "Can’t find the right words right now. Rest in peace Victor ”,“ Oh nooooo RIP floppy hat !! ”and“ I'm sad. RIP Victor ”, it says.

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Les Humphries Singers in 1972: Victor Scott can be recognized by his characteristic floppy hat.

© dpa / Rolf Kruse

Jürgen Drews "startled" - manager of Schlager-Star speaks out after Victor Scott's death

Also  Birgit Behle-Langenbach has its say - she is a manager of Jürgen Drews. "The man with the floppy hat ... I'm very sorry! I just told Jürgen Drews about Victor's death. He is also very scared and sad . Rest in peace, Victor! You will never be forgotten! “, She writes. Jürgen Drews, too, is deeply saddened by his Les Humphries Singers colleague.

How old Victor Scott grew up was initially unknown. Just as little as the cause of death - at first the post of the fan club wrote of a Coronavirus * infection, but this was probably a misstatement, which has since been removed.

Fans have also recently had to say goodbye to a star from the “Harald Schmidt Show”.

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* tz.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editors network.

List of rubric lists: © PHOENIX / NDR / Andreas Fischer

Source: merkur

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